BLOWSION SURF SLAM 2012 PRESENTED BY JETINETICS

The world's greatest Watercraft Freeriders and Racers are descending once again to the ocean beaches of Pacific City Oregon for this year's top US PWC surf event, which combines the third round of the IFWA Freeride World Championship Tour with the IJSBA Freeride World Cup and Motosurf Western Championship. The Surfslam is held at Tierra Del Mar Beach access located just north of Pacific City, Oregon and is free to the public on this wide expanse of incredible beach. The Blowsion Surf Slam brings over 40 professional competitors from around the world competing for a cash purse and points towards the IFWA World title and competing for the 4th Annual IJSBA Freeride World Cup. Joining them will be some of the best PWC racers in the world who will display high speed turns through a grueling buoy course all while being challenged by the Pacific Coast's always unpredictable waves.

Returning for 2012 in IJSBA Motosurf Racing to compete will be former IJSBA Pro Ski Champion Jordan Fielder (UK), 2012 IJSBA Pro Ski Class racer David Redinger (USA) and the always popular and exciting Moto Surf Pro Ski Racers Aaron Newport (USA) and Jeff Troegner (USA). In IFWA Pro Freeride Christian Young (USA), Jake Montadon (South Africa), Zach Bright (USA), Taylor Curtis (USA), Takaaki Murao (Japan), and current IFWA World Champion Pierre Maixent (France) will be joining a huge list of other International Pro and Amateur Freeriders to tangle with the epic West Coast surf and each other.

Pro and Amateur Freeride competitors will compete in a head to head double elimination format. A panel of professional judges will score them 50% for their wave surfing and 50% for their aerial maneuvers. The IJSBA, in its support for the IFWA, will award the winner of this round with the IJSBA Freeride World Cup. The infamous Oregon Pacific Coast surf will boost freeriders over 20 feet in the air while performing surf combinations featuring multiple rotation backflips, Madonna rolls, Superman backflips, inverted barrel rolls, floaters, look backs, aerial re-entries and no handed landings. Spectators will also witness intense personal watercraft racing with the IJSBA MotoSurf Invitational. The top 20 Pro, Pro Am and Amateur wave racers in the country will battle it out in this challenging Oregon shoreline break. Racers will compete in a multi-moto format of several laps through a buoy course requiring a balance of maintaining high speeds while making split second strategic maneuvers around buoys and other racers while being utterly pounded by the intense Pacific Coast surf.

This event is a weekend of non-stop surf and beach vibe action. The Freeride Qualifying will begin on Friday September 7th. Freeride competition and Motosurf racing will take place on Saturday and Sunday Sept 8th and 9th. The main events will take place Saturday and Sunday from 8am-4pm. K&S Kuwait is proudly presenting the third annual K&S BIG AIR SHOWDOWN on Saturday with a $500.00 cash award to the freerider exhibiting the most amplitude in this must-see contest of aerial throw downs.

Rounding out the amenities of this action packed weekend is a vendor and sponsor beach display area with food and beverage offerings to add to the festival surf environment. With over three miles of open beach to launch from, be sure to bring your own wave shredding machine to carve up some of the famous Oregon West Coast Surf.

2012 HOT PRODUCTS WORLD FINALS

Farthing wins 17th Championship!!!!

Monster Energy / Yamaha / Mountain Motorsports Dustin Farthing powered his Vortech Supercharged Yamaha FZR to his 17th Pro Championship this past weekend in Charleston WV. Farthing has been racing the International Jet Sports Boating Association (UWP INC) National Tour in the Pro Runabout Open class, Farthing finished the tour with 20 wins out of 21 races. 

Farthing came out swinging at the beginning of the season on his brand new Monster Energy Yamaha and showed everyone the reason for the big move to Yamaha for 2012.

Everything went in the right direction for us this year said Farthing, I could not be any happier with my new Yamaha Waverunner and the continued support from my long time sponsors Monster Energy, Mountain Motorsports, Jet Trim, Vortech, Jet Pilot, Hot Products, JE Pistons, Fox, Skat Trak, AP Designs, Smith. I am getting to live the American dream and this would not be possible with out a great team standing behind me. 

After a near perfect season in the nationals, winning twenty of twenty one motos, Farthing has set his eyes on the the IJSBA Pro Runabout Open Class World Title that will take place in October. 

Photo courtesy  of Rinnymac/Prorider Magazine

PWC sales in USA see 5 percent growth in July, 2012

Sales of PWC have risen sharply in the past five months for Bellwether states, reaching 5 percent growth for the segment in July after plateauing at a 10 percent year-over-year decline last fall and winter, according to the latest figures from Info-Link Technologies.
Ski boats experienced similar market conditions last fall and winter, with sales down 5 percent year-over-year before increasing sharply in the past few months.
The data for all boating states, which lags five months behind the bellwether states but provides a more complete view of the market, was updated through March, with PWC sales down almost 12 percent.
The data is based on new U.S. boat registrations. Bellwether states are geographically dispersed states representing roughly half of the US boat market (which varies by market segment and time of year). Full graphs are available here: Info-Link Technologies Bellwether Report.

http://www.powersportsbusiness.com/news/2012/08/23/pwc-sales-see-5-percent-growth-in-july/

Mitsuhiro “Hiro” Iwamoto is a totally blind but excellent sailor who endeavors to cross the Pacific Ocean from San Diego, where he lives, to Japan, where he was born

Mitsuhiro “Hiro” Iwamoto is a totally blind but excellent sailor who endeavors to cross the Pacific Ocean from San Diego, where he lives, to Japan, where he was born. He does not chase fame but a dream to help others, especially young people who feel useless and worthless. Please lean more about Hiro and join us to support his dream!
Hiro was born with weak eyesight, became fully blind in middle school. His condition was total blindness, the complete lack of form and visual light perception and is clinically recorded as NLP, an abbreviation for "no light perception."
He faced the harsh reality of blindness during his formative teenage years and suffered through a period of fear and pain not commonly experienced by a typical teenager. However, he pulled through this tough period and began to lead a life that did not see blindness as a handicap.
He turned blindness into a good fortune by developing his other senses, especially the sense of touch and developed his career, “Shishinjutsu”, a new kind of healing therapy that blends the principles of Acupuncture with the other ancient energy healing arts. Today, he has a successful practice offering his special treatment program to clients throughout California. His life style and dream have been reported online as well as magazines.

http://www.seewhatisea.com/en/

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CRONULA 2012 RIP'N RIDE 5, SEPTEMBER 21-22, 2012

The Event

In its Fifth proven year of success the Cronulla 2012 Rip'N Ride 5 will be held at the prime location of Wanda Beach. A huge stage for both riders and spectators has expectations for the latest, greatest and never before attempted aerial tricks at its peak. With the who’s who of local and international riders combined with the newest faces to the sport the Rip N Ride format is in a class of its own. With entry positions limited to 70 riders, this year was sold out in a record 25 hours. It is said that no other competition of its class can compete with those figures, making it a world renowned attraction.

Event History

The “Rip and Ride” was brought to life by OZFREERIDE.COM and the Cronulla Freeride Crew in 2008, with the idea of promoting our sport to Rookies entailing a fun filled day with prizes, without the added pressure of a freeride competition. The success has been the key to a bigger and better event building year after year from the inaugural Rip and Ride of an expected 25 riders we received 42, majority being males aged between 18 and 35. In, 2009 it had attracted over 60 international and local riders, 2010-11:- 67 riders and finally to today having to cap the entries at 70. Since the introduction of the Rip'N Ride, the New South Wales Freeride Association (NSWFA) has been formed as a freeride jet skiing body. Following on from that came the Victorian Freeride Association (VICFA) and Queensland Freeride Watercraft Association (QFWA) with the intention and success of hosting their own Rip'N Ride events.

Event Details

Date:- Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd September 2012
Location:- Wanda Beach Cronulla